After an overwhelming surge in cases of COVID-19, Chicago's top doctor shared promising news on Tuesday – slowly but surely, Omicron is easing.
Dr. Allison Arwady was cautiously optimistic when sharing the news. "Being on just the other side of this very high peak is not a sustainable place for us. We need to come down much, much further," said Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health. More than 200 Chicagoans are being hospitalized with COVID-19 daily, and an average of 20 Chicago residents are dying as a result of the virus each day.
"Delta at this point has been, what we call, out-competed by omicron," said Arwady. "Because Omicron is so much more infectious, so much more contagious, it has had the opportunity to spread very, very quickly, and we see it sort of replace Delta." Arwady said it's possible the Delta variant eventually disappears, like the original strain of COVID, which is now undetected. "If the virus itself didn’t change, we could do a pretty good job of predicting what would happen," said Arwady. She urges people to continue masking-up and to get vaccinated if you haven’t already.In Chicago, 78 percent of eligible residents have gotten at least one vaccine dose. Worldwide, Arwady said 61 percent of the population is now vaccinated.
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